Friday, January 12, 2007

PirateBay Plans to Buy Sealand and Become Own Country

Once again via digg, it looks as though the pirate bay folks are (very) interested in purchasing a man made island a few nautical miles off the coast of England.

Bittorrent tracker PirateBay.org, currently based in Sweden, plans to purchase the man-made island-country, Sealand, off the coast of the UK. Sealand is its own country, and the PirateBay would not be subject to the jurisdiction of any nations if it relocated to the island. TPB is seaking donations to help go through with this plan.

I'm having a hard time making sure that this is for real. The site and news regarding the possible purchase seem legit, but the asking price of the nation seems way too high. I'm guessing they're at least somewhat sincere about this, since the current TPB splash page displays an image of Sealand itself. Still, I can't help but think that this is a huge joke. Either way it's super cool.